Godhara riots: Nanavati panel may submit final report to govt today

Ahmedabad: The final report of the Justice Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat is likely on Saturday.

Justice GT Nanavati had earlier said that the final report is ready and will be submitted to the government today.

“There is no need to seek a 25th extension, because our final report is ready. It is now being printed and will come to us in a few days. We will submit it to government by November 15,” Justice Nanavati told.

In 2008, the inquiry panel had submitted one part of its finding about the Godhra train burning incident, in which it had concluded that burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra railway station was a “planned conspiracy”.

The panel had been constituted by the Gujarat state government on March 3, 2002, under the Commission of Inquiry Act comprising Justice K G Shah in the wake of the Godhra train carnage on February 27, 2002 and the subsequent communal riots across the state.

Initially, the Terms of Reference (TOR) of the commission were to inquire into the facts, circumstances and course of events that led to the burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express.